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Ministers may be forced to abandon one of their main childcare reforms after
Nick Clegg threatened to veto the proposals. A coalition row burst into the
open when the Deputy Prime Minister publicly cast doubt on plans to allow
carers to look after more children, saying that he was sceptical about the
financial benefits.

Elizabeth Truss, the Childcare Minister, who has championed the changes,
defended the idea in the Commons and insisted that it would still go ahead.
But Liberal Democrat sources said that they had yet to be persuaded by the
idea of increasing the child-to-adult limit for nurseries